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As per the new data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHWF) on 16th of July 2021, 38,949 new COVID-19 cases were reported from all over the country taking the infection tally to 3,10,26,829, while the overall death toll now stands at 4,12,531.

Also during the past 24 hours, 542  new fatalities were reported due to COVID19 infections.
The active cases have declined to 4,30,422 and comprise 1.39 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate stands at 97.28 per cent.

The latest data was issued on Friday at around 8 am in the morning.

It said that a decrease of 1,619 has been recorded in the number of active cases in a span of 24 hours

The Health Ministry statistics are : 19,55,910 tests were conducted on Thursday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 44,00,23,239, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.99 per cent.

The positivity rate has been less than three per cent for 25 consecutive days, it said

The weekly positivity rate stands at 2.14 per cent, according to the health ministry.

If it touches 5 per cent then according to World Health Organisation (WHO) that is a danger level.

Up till now, 39.53 crore Indians have been inoculated with at least one jab of COVID19 vaccine.